Psalms 35

1 Of David - contend! O Yahweh with opponents my fight with [those who] fight with me.

[A Psalm] of David. Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

2 Take hold of shield and body shield and arise! help my.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

3 And draw out a spear and lance to meet pursuers my say to self my [am] salvation your I.

Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.

4 May they be ashamed and they may be humiliated [those who] seek life my may they be turned back backwards and may they be abashed [those who] plot harm my.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

5 May they be like chaff before a wind and [the] angel of Yahweh pushing.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].

6 May it be way their darkness and slippery places and [the] angel of Yahweh pursuing them.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

7 For without cause they have hidden for me [the] pit of net their without cause they have dug for life my.

For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

8 May it come to him destruction [which] not he knows and net his which he hid may it catch him in destruction may he fall in it.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

9 And self my it will rejoice in Yahweh it will exult in salvation his.

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

10 All bones my - they will say O Yahweh who? [is] like you [one who] delivers a poor [person] from a person [too] strong for him and [the] poor and [the] needy from [one who] robs him.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

11 They rise up! witnesses of violence [that] which not I know they ask me.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not.

12 They repay me harm in place of good bereavement [belongs] to self my.

They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

13 And I - when were sick they clothing my [was] sackcloth I humbled with fasting self my and prayer my to bosom my it returned.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

14 Like a friend like a brother of me I went about like a mourner of a mother mourning I bowed.

I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.

15 And at stumbling my they rejoiced and they gathered they gathered on me smitten [people] and not I knew they tore and not they were still.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

16 Godless [ones] of mockers of cake they gnashed towards me teeth their.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17 O Lord how long? will you look bring back! life my from ravages their from young lions only [life] my.

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

18 I will give thanks to you in [the] assembly great among a people numerous I will praise you.

I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

19 May not they rejoice to me enemies my falsehood [those who] hate me without cause let them wink an eye.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

20 For not peace they speak and on [the] quiet [people] of [the] land words of deceit they plan!

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

21 And they have opened wide on me mouth their they have said aha! - aha! it has seen eyes our.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it].

22 You have seen O Yahweh may not you be silent O Lord may not you be distant from me.

[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

23 Wake up! and awake! for judgment my O God my and O Lord for cause my.

Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

24 Vindicate me according to righteousness your O Yahweh God my and may not they rejoice to me.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

25 May not they say in heart their aha! desire our may not they say we have swallowed him.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

26 May they be ashamed and they may be abashed - altogether [the] [people] joyful of distress my may they be clothed shame and ignominy who magnify themselves on me.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

27 May they shout for joy and they may rejoice [the] [people] desirous of righteousness my and may they say continually may he be great Yahweh desiring [the] welfare of servant his.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

28 And tongue my it will utter righteousness your all the day praise your.

And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy praise all the day long.